WordPress Anniversary Theme

Features

License: The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for free and without any restrictions.

Support: For further theme support please visit the Forum.

Installing WP Anniversary Theme

1. Go to your WP Admin panel, Appearance >Themes > Install Themes and upload wpanniversary.zip file.

2. To install the theme manually you should have already wordpress installed and running on your server. Unzip wpanniversary.zip and using FTP, upload the contents to your web server, and place it in "/wp-contents/themes/wpanniversary".

3. Now that you have the theme uploaded you just need to login to your WP admin panel and activate it "Appearance > Themes".

4. Beside "Post Thumbnail" this theme uses TimThumb for better image resizing. In case your post thumbnails don't appear you should check the following:

- Your server has the GD library compiled with its version of PHP. It usually included with PHP 4.3 and higher. If you are not sure you should check with your hosting provider.
- Make sure permissions for "Cache" folder from your theme folder is 755. If this is not working try 777 but also check with your provider as 777 permission should usually be avoided due to security reasons.
- Make sure the file "timthumb.php" has the correct permissions needed for your server.In most cases this is "644" but it may vary depending on where you are hosted. If 644 does not work, try 755 or 777.

5. Cufon Font Replacement
Current font used on Cufon Replacement is Vegur. If you want to use your own font or if you want the current font to have more special character included, you have to go to Cufon Font Generator page and generate your own. Add the generated file it to your "js" folder and change the font script reference in header.php:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/js/Vegur_400-Vegur_700.font.js"></script>

Theme Setting Up

Latest Tweets Built-in Widget /

Themes comes with a built-in widget for latest tweets, that you can simply drag on sidebar or footer widget-ready areas.


Theme Options Page

The theme comes with a custom options page. Among the usual the theme has several layout options that you can choose from like standard posts listing, grid listing,  each of these with or without thumbnails and you can choose sidebar location, on the left or right side of the theme. You can also disable/hide the “Thank you WP” header or just simply change the header image with one of your own.

 

Menu Management

The theme is ready to take advantage of the new Wordpress 3.0+ feature for Menus Management.

*Please remember that you first need to create a menu to appear as available under registered Themes Locations.

 

Contact Page

When you create the Contact page, you will need to set the "Contact" template for it ( right side Attributes panel ), in order to have the contact page as in preview and have it Ajax functional.

Setting Post Thumbnail

The theme comes with the WP thumbnail options enabled in functions.php. So, setting up a post thumbnail can be done in edit post page. The post option will be visible on the right sidebar.

You can also set as post thumbnail an image you insert into your post. So, when inserting an image you will see an option for "Use as thumbnail".

PrettyPhoto Lightbox

For adding Lightbox behaviour to a link just add rel="prettyPhoto" to the image Link Rel.